> >It sometimes takes tar a long time to clean up and finish flushing all
> >it's buffers after it appears it's finished.  On a large archive I
> >sometimes wait a minute or more.
> >
> 
> This was stopped for about two minutes.  I ran tar is single-user mode and
> it didn't take more than twoseconds after the last file was done untarring.
> 
> 
> Anyway, is there a way to fix this error?  I'm still getting an error from
> rc when I boot giving an unknown error message.  What can I do?
> 

Have you tried:

fsck -p -y && reboot -n

???

That might clear it out...might not...

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX